If Missouri ever elects another Democrat for a governor, St. Louis may be renamed, because the cancel culture left wants St. Louis renamed. Why? Because the city is named after the French King Louis IX, who died in 1270 while on a crusade.
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The petition seeks to build off recent momentum associated with anti-police brutality protests, which resulted in the removal of many Confederate and colonial statues. Trump has strongly opposed the vigilante toppling of monuments.
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St. Louis once was the eighth-largest US city, but has lost almost two-thirds of its population since 1950.The St. Louis suburb of Ferguson was in 2014 the site of civil unrest in response to the death of Michael Brown in an altercation with police.
The name-change petition says Louis IX “was a rabid anti-semite who spearheaded many persecutions against the Jewish people. Centuries later Nazi Germany gained inspiration and ideas from Louis IX as they embarked on a campaign of murderous genocide against the Jewish people. Louis IX was also vehemently Islamophobic and led a murderous crusade against Muslims which ultimately cost him his life.”